Toms River man honored with Carnegie Hero award

6:40 PM,
Oct. 4, 2013

Written by

Nicholas Huba
@nicholashuba

A township resident has been awarded the prestigious Carnegie Hero award for helping to save a man from a pit bull attack in January.

John Nash Hale, 59, was honored along with 21 other individuals as recipients of the Carnegie Medal. The medal, which is awarded by the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, is given throughout the United States and Canada to people who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.

"I feel deeply honored to have received this award,'' Hale said Thursday afternoon. "I've lived in my house since 1965 ...